What's UniSysCat all about?

UniSysCat stands for Unifying Systems in Catalysis. We are a Cluster of Excellence - more than 300 researchers from four universities and four research institutes in the Berlin and Potsdam area - working jointly together on current challenges in the highly relevant field of catalysis.

UniSysCat unites biologists, chemists, engineers and physicists with the aim to revolutionize catalysis research.

News

UniSysCat member Prof. Maria Andrea Mroginski was interviewed for "TU intern" about the simulation of catalysts for the energy transition.

A research team around UniSysCat group leader Prof. Roldán Cuenya from FHI Berlin provides insights into size effects and structural changes important for the activity of cobalt oxide nanoparticles at work.

A team of UniSysCat researchers found a coupling scheme for the ATP-driven electron transfer in the double-cubane cluster protein and its associated metalloenzyme based on the structure of their complex.

A team of UniSysCat researchers developed a very efficient Ca−Fe−O catalyst for electrocatalytic water splitting. They also could elaborate the critical role of Calcium in the process.

UniSysCat member Prof. Birgit Kanngießer has been awarded with the Outstanding Achievement Award 2022 of the European X-ray Spectrometry Association.

The German Chemical Society (GDCh) honours Prof. Paul T. Anastas and Prof. John C. Warner with the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze for their special services to chemistry. UniSysCat congratulates!

In the new episode of the BR50 podcast, UniSysCat member Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl, CatLab researcher Dr. Steffi Hlawenka and Prof. Dr. Franziska Holz (DIW Berlin) discuss hydrogen as the "champagne" of renewable energies.

From energy research to hearing aids to computer simulations in optics - five new episodes of the podcast "exzellent erklärt" were released from May to July.

The networking event Berlin4Ukraine on 30 June 2022 aims to introduce exiled researchers from Ukraine to the academic system in Germany and Berlin.

UniSysCat congratulates the prior associated member Zeynep Altintas to her appointment to a professorship in Biomaterials (at the Faculty of Engineering) at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Energie-Zeitenwende: mehr Effizienz durch bessere Katalysatoren - Video with Youtuber Tom Bötticher

Video: Optogenetics

Video: Learning from nature

"Making the world better with chemistry" - John Warner

Consortium

Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2008– 390540038